Re: [orca-list] date and time keybindings

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com> wrote:
> I have always disliked the f12 key as time and date. It's so far off the
> track of normal typing it would be just as easy to read it from the
> panel. I vote for orca+t, it just works well. I know that Jaws uses f12
> and so does NVDA, but that doesn't make it good lol.

It may be possible to write an optional other-screen-reader-compatibility mode
that just changes the key bindings to resemble a different assistive
technology.

There are precedents for this, for example the Vi emulation mode of Emacs.